KILLED! Daniel Akwetey Okine Awulley
DANIEL AKWETEY Okine Awulley, a 79-year-old family head at Miotso, a suburb of Prampram in the Greater Accra Region, has reportedly been killed in what is believed to be contract killing.
Popularly known as Igwe, Awulley was gunned down by an unknown assailant at his residence in Miotso Wednesday dawn.
He sustained several bullet wounds on his waist, chest and abdomen.
The latest development occurred barely two months after the killing of the family head of Kley Tsokunya family in Prampram, who was also killed at a shrine at dawn.
The situation has put fear and panic into many residents who are calling for serious action from the Ghana Police Service and the Judicial Service to bring an end to the series of killings in the area.
Information gathered by DAILY GUIDE indicates that the deceased, who does not reside in the place of the incident, arrived last night to pass the night in order to go to court the subsequent day over a land dispute when armed men attacked and killed him.
The gunmen purportedly broke into the room of the late kingmaker after destroying the metal security door with the aid of a concrete slab, and fired several shots into his abdomen and chest. Interestingly, the killers did not take anything from the room except to murder him.
Reports indicate that the kingmaker was killed over a land dispute on which judgment was scheduled to be passed on February 2, 2022 by an Accra High Court.
Brother to the deceased, Theophilus Botchwey, who spoke to DAILY GUIDE, said he also survived a similar attack in 2020 and expressed worry about the spate of contract killings in the Miotso community.
He recalled how his elder brother, Emmanuel Botchwey, was also killed in similar fashion in 2016 by suspected gun men.
He warned that the failure of the police and the court to deal with the growing rate of contract killings in the area will lead to a floodgate of counter attacks, since persons behind such killings were known indigenes.
Some family members who had gathered at the residence of the murdered kingmaker, could not hide their frustrations over the growing rate of contract killings in the area.
They said the incident was making them to live in fear, and called for justice for their murdered family man.
The latest killing brings to eight (8) the number of supposed contract killing cases relating to chieftaincy and land disputes in the area.
However, out of the total of murder cases recorded, none has yet been resolved.
The Tema Police say they have begun investigation into the incidents that led to the killing.
According to a statement issued by the Tema Regional Police Command, their patrol team in Prampram, at about 2.10 am, while on night duty, accosted two gentlemen, who upon interrogations, informed police that they had information to the effect that, their father had been shot and killed.
The statement, signed by Chief Inspector Stella Dede Dzakpasu, spokeswoman of Tema Regional Police Command, said “The patrol team accompanied them to the address of their father and found that the main door to the two-bedroom house had been broken into, with a six-inch block which the assailants used to break into the building.”
The body has since been deposited at the Tema General Hospital Morgue for autopsy and preservation.
Meanwhile, personnel from the Homicide Unit, CID Headquarters and Regional CID, Tema visited the scene and have started investigation into the incident.
The police therefore, appealed to members of the public who may have any information leading to the arrest of the perpetrators, to contact the nearest police station for further action.
FROM Vincent Kubi, Miotso